rascal

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  1. noun One that is playfully mischievous.
  2. noun An unscrupulous, dishonest person; a scoundrel.
  3. adjective Archaic Made up of, belonging to, or relating to the common people: "Nor shall the Rascal Rabble here have Peace” (John Dryden).

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scoundrel ·  knave ·  wretch ·  thief ·  ruffian ·  liar ·  hypocrite ·  vagabond ·  brute ·  impostor ·  scamp ·  beggar

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rascal:   rascals
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  1. Middle English rascaile, rabble, commoners, from Old French rascaille, probably from rasque, mud, from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre, to scrape; see rash2.

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  1. Early modern English rascall; from Middle English rascall, raskalle, rascaile, rascaille, rascayle, raskaille, rasskayle, rascalie, rascalye, from Old French (Anglo-French) rascaille, raskaylle, raskayle, a rabble, mob, French racaille, “the rascality or base and rascall sort, the scumme, dregs, offals, outcasts, of any company” (Cotgrave), literally ‘scrapings,’ from Old French *rasquer, scrape, = Spanish Portuguese rascar, scratch, rasgar, tear, rend, scrape, = Old Italian rascare, burnish, rub, furbish (see rash), from Late Latin *rasicare, freq. of Latin radere, past participle rasus, scrape: see rase, raze.
 

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/ˈræskəl/
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